1. 2009-09-18 20:03:52

   Tuesday 9/15 1pm shoot-out at Thunder Valley

   
   Tuesday 9/15 1pm shoot-out at Thunder Valley: $20+2 buy-in, 3,000 chips, 32 players >> chop top 5 ($110 prize)
   With 3,000 and starting blinds at 100 and 200, you're already with an M of 10 at the very first hand! First table shoot-out: every move counts, so no fooling around with marginal hand, but play aggressive if you decide to enter the pot. It's not exciting and I can't recall a single "important hand" even though I finished 1st.

   Fun hand: first hand dealt at the final table, with 8 players. I have the button; the SB and BB on my left made comments that with the structure at Thunder Valley and a probable chop 6-way, the goal was to survive the two unlucky who will get busted out of the money. I decided then that I would push those guys to try and steal their blinds even with an average hand. The UTG+1 limps in, rest of the table folds. I find ATs of heart in the pocket, 500 chips in the pot, I raise 3 times the BB to 600. SB folds, BB calls and complains that I am "bullying" the table. UTG+1 folds. The flop is KJ9, with 2 clubs. Heads-up, BB checks: I don't have much, some draws, but I can probably shake him loose with a continuation bet. I bet 800 (half the pot) and BB complains again of why oh why I would bully people, but he calls! That's smelly and bad news, I don't like that a bit because the guy looked pretty savvy when I watched him win his table. Turn is a beautiful Q of diamonds, making me a straight, but with 2 clubs and 2 diamonds on the board. BB checks again, I have made my straight, now what? Check is out of question: 2 flush draws, he must pay to beat me. But I don't want to lose him, I'd like to bust him now, because I feel he's got either a massive draw from the start, or even one or two pairs. I settle on a 900 bet: we each have 1,600 chips, so I somewhat hope he'd feel committed by a call, and even attempt now an all-in raise with bad pot odds. Unfortunately, his holdings must have been a bit weaker than I thought, or he was smarter, because he laid down his hand... Good start!

   Posted by Frederic at 2009-09-18 20:03:52

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Comments on “Tuesday 9/15 1pm shoot-out at Thunder Valley”

1. • Posted by Jason M g 2009-09-19 05:35:04
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   • M of 10 at the start? Wow... How do you cash in these so often with such a crazy starting stack? :)